A new spot from MoveOn that will become MTV's second ever political ad involves jokey references to STDs and a confusing chicken metaphor -- both things that are big hits with the kids!; an activist group spawned online is pioneering in the cable TV space, using a service that brokers tiny slices of airtime for as little as the cost of a sandwich; the RNC riffs off Facebook to shed some negative attention on Barack Obama's "friends," it we ask if the effort is worth it; and a great deal more, my friends, a great deal more.

Semi-pro campaign journalism gets a mid-term review; Republican consultant launches NoJohn.com; Chuck DeFeo shares his secrets for getting attention online; Obama gets naked with his earmarks, will Clinton follow?; and now you can listen in too on those campaign conference calls.

Matt Bai talks to Tracy Russo, of the John Edwards campaign, about how to move on; Barack Obama and Ron Paul are added to the roster for MTV and MySpace's Closing Arguments event; MTV's Street Team '08 is armed and ready to report on Super Tuesday; PolFeeds collects and spits out the online content produced by the candidates, Members of Congress, the White House, and your grandmother; catch video of Josh Levy and Sarah Stirland on Brian Lehrer this week; Hillary Clinton announces a townhall meeting and invites supporters to submit questions via the web, text, and YouTube; and Barack Obama has raised $50 billion in the last 60 seconds.

Compete releases new data showing an online surge for Huckabee and Edwards, but Paul is still king; MTV launches its ambitious "Street Team '08" citizen journalism project; YouTube asks Iowans to videotape the run-up to the caucuses; the Electoral Map analyzes the political uses of mapping; a British Member of Parliament loses his identity, on Facebook anyway; Marc Ambinder sees an Edwards surge on and off the web.

John McCain is the next candidate up in the MTV/MySpace presidential dialogues; we'll be liveblogging it direct from New Hampshire; dirty emails tricks are cropping up in Iowa; YouTube encourages user responses to the candidates and the about last week's debate; Google is the new GE. Is that a good thing?; the Blog P.I. looks at three Republican fundraising sites and chooses his favorite; and the web is full of misogynistic mudslinging about Hillary Clinton.

Off The Bus and Scoop08, two citizen-journalism efforts tracking the election, get the New York Times treatment; a Republican CNN/YouTube debate is confirmed (I thought that already happened?); what is the meaning of Stephen Colbert's continued popularity on Facebook?; Why Tuesday posts some responses to its Candidate Challenge; and Barack Obama participates in the MTV/MySpace online dialogue, and does well (at least that's what this video-disabled blogger heard).

Well, we've had quite a weekend, ever since we announced that the top question as of 10am today would be asked of Senator Barack Obama during this afternoon's live MySpace/MTV dialogue at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. Participation on 10Questions.com has surged, with the total number of voters topping 15,000 (that's up about 9,000 from Friday), the total number of votes hitting 46,000 (up 19,000) and the total unique visits for the weekend at 17,000, more than ten times Friday's traffic.

More on the RedState ban on Ron Paul "shills"; Matt Stoller responds to Patrick Ruffini's analysis of newly-released Facebook data; as we suspected, media coverage of the election is more horerace-y than ever before; Barack Obama will participate in the second MySpace/MTV presidential dialogue; Sam Brownback belatedly updates his website with news that he's dropped out of the race.

Stephen Colbert gets a Facebook group; more data fun over at ronpaulgraphs.com; Barack Obama is the next participant in the MySpace/MTV Presidential Forum -- where are the Republicans?; Todd Zeigler on Obama's latest "personal" email.

John Edwards holds an event in Columbus, KY, the small town that won his Eventful "Demand and Be Heard" contest; MySpace re-launches its Impact channel and teams up with PayPal to make fundraising easy for users; Jim Geraghty asks if "YouTubeMySpaceFacebookMashup" really matters to a campaign; Tyra Banks embeds a voter registration widget and -- surprise! -- people register to vote; and Republican fundraising numbers are announced, which are significantly lower that the Democrats' numbers.